Recent Externally Funded Awards
July - August 2019
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
Previous Awards
May - June 2019
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Administrative Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Enhanced Implementation of K-Scope & ASII Tunnel Detection Analysis Approach Using FWI, Modal Segmentation Methods, and Integrated Multi-Modal Techniques | $3,630,349 |
| Hock, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Possible Selves and Self-Determination: Improving Transition Outcomes for High School Students with Learning Disabilities | $3,293,003 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Defense | Development of a Military-Specific Transdiagnostic Eating-Disorder Survey and Screening Tool in a Nationally Representative Sample of Veterans | $1,721,698 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Professional Development to Support Intervention Implementation of the Promoting Communication Tools for Advancing Language in Kids (PC TALK) for Infants and Toddlers at Risk for or with Disabilities | $1,400,000 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $1,400,000 |
| Sailor, Wayne | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project DataWall: A Decision Support System for MTSS | $1,388,621 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovations | $1,038,035 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Bilateral BBSRC-NSF/BIO: CIBR: Structural Modeling of Interactome to Assess Phenotypic Effects of Genetic Variation | $957,042 |
| Perkins, Jonathan | Academic Resource Center, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Institute for International Education | Building Language Capacity and Cultural Competency to Meet National Security Needs: The University of Kansas Language Training Center | $704,002 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | NASA Goddard Space Center | AGILE: Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope | $659,940 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Engineering Interfaces for High-Performance Oxide Superconductor Nanocomposite Films | $502,749 |
| Alexander, Perry | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Adventium Labs | Vulnerabilities Out of Learned Timed Automata (VOLTA) | $459,520 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | IDPH CQI Support and Module Development (FY2019) | $442,221 |
| Picking, William | Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identification of Small Molecule Probes for Dissecting the Roles of Sorting Platform Components within the Type III Secretion System | $416,625 |
| Chapman, Shawna | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | LYFTE: Lifting Young Families toward Excellence | $335,227 |
| Ginther, Donna | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding | $236,790 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Title V MCH Statewide Needs Assessment | $216,281 |
| Wehmeyer, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | AspirePlus: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Promote Self-Determination and More Positive Student Outcomes | $199,961 |
| Bever, James | Kansas Biological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Legume-Rhizobia Mutualism as a Driver of Grassland Composition and Community Resistance to Invasion | $150,670 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | Control of Chromosome Segregation by DNA Topoisomerase II | $150,371 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Institutes of Health | Scanning Resonator Microscopy | $142,202 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Integrated Biotherapeutics Inc. | Mining Natively Paired Macaque Antibodies for Marburg Virus Protective Antibodies | $129,989 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Universities Space Research Association | Searching for Torus Emission in Cold Quasars | $114,300 |
| Luo, Bo | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Stars | $98,411 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Fibertek Inc. | Acquisition Design and Data Conditioning in Advance of Implementation of K-Scope for Assessment of Groundbreaker Capabilities to Improve Subterranean Detection Capabilities | $87,701 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering | Wichita State University | National Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship 2019 | $67,950 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community Based Project Evaluation | $60,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal | $52,303 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Ensuring Mental Health Needs are Met for All Students Through a Multi-Tiered System of Support | $51,910 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Colorado School of Mines | CZ RCN: Building Capacity to Deepen the Critical Zone: Expanding Boundaries and Exploring Gradients through Data-Model Synergy | $40,049 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Summer Scholars Y6 | $36,360 |
